11/25/2023 0 Comments Captin phillips guy![]() Miss SS said to me, “That looks like a movie you go to if you want to be depressed for the rest of your life,” and I’m not sure I’d disagree with her. And if they do that, what’s the point of having the mine anyway?īut back to Captain Phillips. How do you make that interesting for 100 minutes? Especially when the miners are told right away that they’ll be fine! That they’re all going to be rescued! Where’s the suspense in that? The only way that movie’s going to work is if they find a compelling storyline outside of the mine. ![]() But why? A group of 30 Chilean miners are trapped together in a small room. The fact that people have heard about it means much of the advertising for their film has already been done. Who cares if they can’t find a way to actually make it good. Studios are so desperate for product that if ANY major story hits the news, they HAVE to snatch it up and make a movie about it. The weird thing is that this is the reality in Hollywood. I remember when the whole Somali pirate thing swept the world and this particular story came out and I thought to myself, “They’re going to make a movie about this.” And then I thought, “But why?” I mean, there’s definitely a dramatic element to a crew being held hostage, but the concept is missing that “Gotta go out and see this in the theater now” element that a feature needs to make money. There’s something about Captain Phillips that feels kind of… boring. Writer: Billy Ray (based on the book by Richard Philips)ĭetails: 120 pages – Decemdraft (first draft revised) Paul Greengrass (most of the Bourne movies) is directing. And he’s taking charge of the hopefully Brendan-Frasier-less Mummy Reboot. He’s probably best known for The Hunger Games. He makes ridiculous amounts of money for this. The script was written by Hollywood A-list screenwriter Billy Ray, who’s one of the ten guys in town who basically rewrites everything before it’s put in front of the lens. Tom Hanks is starring in what surely the studio hopes will be an Oscar-nominated role. As you read above, it’s based on a true story. Premise: (from IMDB) The true story of Captain Richard Phillips and the 2009 hijacking by Somali pirates of the US-flagged MV Maersk Alabama, the first American cargo ship to be hijacked in two hundred years.Ībout: The original script title for Captain Phillips was “Maersk Alabama,” a title I’m not surprised they changed.
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